ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,669, issued on July 8, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).
"Efficient flow management utilizing unified logging" was invented by Brijesh Singh (Mercer Island, Wash.) and Leonard Thomas Tracy (Bothell, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for a smart network interface card (smartNIC) performing a unified logging process. In one example, an accelerator transmits a packet to a programming data plane of the smart network interface card. The programming data plane determines whether the packet is to be forwarded. In accordance with a determination that the packet is not be forwarded...